Abstract

This article represents an involvement of deconstruction in the South African law of contract. Having provided some context, history and justification for the involvement of deconstruction in the South African law of contract, the text avails itself of the deconstructive method of narrative interruption in reading the Supreme Court of Appeal's judgment in the Bredenkamp matter. The conclusion emphasises that the text's deconstructive reading of the Bredenkamp judgment is not embarked upon in the name of a relativistic nihilism, but rather in the name of the impossible responsibility that inheres in adjudication.